New Dallas TV Show

New Dallas TV Show

The TV show Dallas returned to our screens last night and over 6 million viewers tuned in to watch the show. Has Dallas lost any of its sparkle and edge? Of course not!

Early burning questions already have viewers wondering who to cheer or jeer.

Will Marta steal the show from the Ewing clan with her switcheroos - Nobody is sure whose side Marta is on yet, J.R.'s? Bobby's? Wait and see.

Love interest is provided by Christopher and Elena with John Ross Junior plotting in the background to pull the rug out from Christopher's feet - those Ewing boys never change do they?

Bobby and J.R. are both suffering from serious illness so we're hanging onto our seats to see if either or both of them make it to the end of the series. Surely, the producers aren't going to make us feel compassion for J.R. this late in the game?

John Ross Junior looks like he's going to be the shapeshifter in the show this time.

Is he good and sweet or as mean and rotten as his daddy? Joel Henderson who plays JR Junior isn't giving anything away."He'll be walking a fine line all season."

Soap operas like Dallas need characters like John Ross Junior to keep the conflict interesting and this is a smart move by producers to get a younger audience in addition to Dallas' stalwart fans.

Dallas TV Show 1980's Original Cast ouside of Southfork Ranch.

JR Ewing - TV's Greatest Villain?

The original Dallas TV show
came to screens in 1978 and at its height between 1980 and 1984 was regularly
number 1 or number 2 in terms of both US and UK viewing figures.

Now I’ll freely admit, I
quite like reprising good TV shows but when Dallas made its last proper episode
in 1991, it was a far remove from its 1981 heights.

We had the brief return of one of its characters, J.R. Ewing in
‘JR Returns’ in 1996 and in 1998 we got ‘War of The Ewings’ in 1998 so Dallas
never really ever went away.

That should tell us that
there is still a hardcore Dallas fanbase – and yeah, most of us are in our
forties and fifties (and sixties and seventies?) but we know a good TV show
when we see one and there has been nothing since to rival Dallas for pure
storytelling.

The scripts zinged with
everything – ambition, greed, money, sex, family feuds and it even had dead
people coming back to life; Pammy’s nightmare lasted a whole series but Bobby
was alive when she woke up at the beginning of the next show.

Bobby - The 'good' Ewing son.

Sue Ellen - 'I need another drink'

Lucy Ewing - bad girl turned good girl turned????

Steve Kanally- Ray Krebbs

And Dallas was a TV show
which created one of the best TV characters ever created, J.R. Ewing.

Larry Hagman who played J.R.
Ewing played him to perfection from start to finish.

Every time he was in a scene, you hung on his every word. The scripts were electrifying and some of
Larry Hagman’s scenes with Linda Gray, especially during her character,
Sue-Ellen’s heavy boozing phase were amazing.

We had pathos mixed in with cruelty but we always knew the Dallas
scriptwriters would have us rooting for Sue Ellen and hope she would exact her
revenge later.

Patrick Duffy and Victoria
Principle were Dallas’ golden couple, the rock solid good to J.R. and
Sue-Ellen’s dysfunctional family.

And young Lucy, once
described by a UK TV critic as ‘the poisoned dwarf’ (she would never get away
with that now in these PC days of ours) is back too. Lucy was one of those annoying characters in a TV show, who
started off bad but ended up good – it was so confusing! That girl’s personality could turn on a
dime! Let’s see how she is doing as one
of the show’s mature characters now.

Steve Kanally, the Ewings’
trusty cowhand is back too – I always had a soft spot for him in the original
series – he was loyal, dumb and good looking, always a winning combination in a
TV show full of rich, manipulative narcissists.

Thomas More's Utopia was humanism in renaissance literature. How much was More influenced by the Renaissance? Like other humanists in the Renaissance, he looked to the future influenced by the past.

Comments 6 comments

trusouldj 4 years ago from Indiana

They mentioned Gary in the last couple of episodes. I'd so like to see Ted Shackelford make an appearance.

trusouldj 5 years ago from Indiana

Just watched Season 1 of Knots Landing for the second time a few weeks ago. I so miss them on Thursday and Dallas on Friday ... Truly enjoyed when Gary would visit Southfork. Even if the new show isn't given a good chance (like Melrose Place), it'll be nice to catch up with old friends.

Jools99 5 years ago from North-East UK Author

Yes, I liked Knots Landing too but Dallas certainly caused lots of gossip about it at work after each episode and I loved that!

Sunshine625 5 years ago from Orlando, FL

I'm looking forward to this! I was a Dallas fan but more of a Knots Landing fan, I still miss that show!

Alecia Murphy 5 years ago from Wilmington, North Carolina

I'm interested to see how this will turn out. Most tv reprisals haven't really included much from the original program, so I'm curious to see how they'll treat the older generation in this upcoming series.

Hubertsvoice 5 years ago

That show had more twists and turns it's no wonder Sue Ellen was always drunk.